Berlin is reviving efforts to buy American Tomahawk cruise missiles after the Pentagon scrapped plans to deploy a US battalion equipped with the weapons to Germany, leaving a gap in Europe’s deterrence against Russia.
The German government is hoping to persuade the Trump administration to agree to the sale of the Tomahawks together with their Typhon ground-launchers, according to people with knowledge of the German government’s strategy.
Defence minister Boris Pistorius is planning a trip to Washington to revive Germany’s offer to buy the long-range systems, that was first submitted in July last year and to which the US has yet to respond, one of the people said.
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